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How the New Outbreak in China Is Hitting Clinics Elsewhere
The social media images from China are a heart-rending déjà vu with photos of young children connected to intravenous lines receiving fluids from overcrowded hospital waiting rooms.
For a world still reeling from the recent coronavirus pandemic, news from China about a sudden rise in respiratory ailments has prompted understandable concern.
Just 4 years ago, a mysterious respiratory illness started to spread in China (SARS-CoV-2), and a lack of transparency by government officials cost other countries needed time to prepare.
In Beijing, worried parents seeking help for their children are having to wait at least a day, even for emergency care. The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported more than 3500 cases of respiratory infection admitted to the Children’s Hospital.
In Liaoning Province, almost 500 miles away from Beijing, there are more reports of sick children overwhelming hospitals.
Chinese media blame the outbreak on mycoplasma pneumonia, sometimes called walking pneumonia, which is a bacterial infection that usually causes upper respiratory tract symptoms but can also prompt more serious lung issues and pneumonia.
In the United States, the weekly percent of emergency department visits for children with diagnosed pneumonia was about 2% as of the latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report November 25, 2023, which is average for this time of year, although the agency is already reporting a slight increase above typical levels for children aged 5-17 years.
- Just in time for the election cycle.MondoMorphic
- very wrinkly hands for a young childkingsteven
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- Nairn-1
We're doomed.
- utopian2
Chinese drug firms backed by global banks found using leopards and pangolins parts.
Three top Chinese pharmaceutical companies, which are backed by top global banks, are using endangered animal parts in their medicines, according to an investigation by an environmental protection group.
In a Monday report, the Environmental Investigation Agency UK (EIA) said it had found 72 companies licensed by China’s drug regulator to be using body parts of leopards and pangolins, two species that face the threat of extinction.
Among them are three publicly listed traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) giants: Beijing Tong Ren Tang, Tianjin Pharmaceutical and Jilin Aodong Medicine.
The EIA said it had found at least nine “products stated to contain leopard and/ or pangolin” that were manufactured by the firms.
Some of the companies identified also sell products that contain parts of tigers and rhinos, which would contradict “China’s own stated position that it does not allow use of tiger bone and rhino horn in medicine,” the organization said.
“This is use on an effectively industrial scale which can only push these species ever closer to extinction,” Avinash Basker, an EIA legal and policy specialist, said in a separate statement.
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- When people say China hasn't been expansionist it ignores the entire history...
https://i.imgur.com/…yuekit - Not that they are better or worse than any other large country but Musk is clearly unwilling to say anything negative.yuekit
- Notice how he talks about the invasion of Taiwan as something that will just inevitably happen, doesn't say it's bad.yuekit
- When people say China hasn't been expansionist it ignores the entire history...
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Taiwan detects 103 Chinese warplanes around island
- Khurram4
China is set to become the world’s biggest car exporter this year, overtaking Japan. The watershed moment will mark the end of decades of dominance by European, American, Japanese and South Korean groups.
- quantity over qualityimbecile
- What are the names of Chinese car co's? Wonder how they'll fit in price wisePhanLo
- let foreign companies to build factories
with innovative technologies.sted - create a law what makes close to impossible to bring out profit from the country.sted
- create an other law to make it impossible to control these companies.sted
- let a few rich chinese take over the factories these foreign companies abandoned due to these laws.sted
- @PhanLo BYD, Nio, Leapmotor, XPENGsted
- Li Auto, Changan, GAC Group, Beiqi Foton, Brilliance, Hawtai.
these have proper factories and R&Dsted - +JAC Motorssted
- germans got fucked few years ago, so some of these (mostly the new EV/PHEV ones) are using the WV factory lines for example.sted
- @Phanlo - the surge is in the EV sector, which surged post-pandemic. China dominates the world in lithium-ion battery cell production - producing more than halfKhurram
- the world’s lithium supply as well as having more than half of the world's refining capacity.Khurram
- "As a result, some of the world’s largest auto companies have set up production facilities in China, including Tesla and BMW...Khurram
- However, Moody’s noted that the foreign brands did not eclipse local ones like Chery and SAIC."Khurram
- https://www.cnbc.com…Khurram
- sted - sounds like it's a little bit unfair that China has become the world's leading car exporter?Khurram
- A review of a Chinese EV: https://www.youtube.…Khurram
- Be afraid Euro-America! Be very afraid! ;PKhurram
- https://www.youtube.…Khurram
- no thanks. i'll wait few more years for the review.pango
- not unfair, its a business.
Nio -> VW E-golf production line and battery pack.sted - look at reviews of their flagship tesla killer luxury brand: BYD :Dsted
- none of the articles mention how the sales or expense/profit ratios look like for these brands. because they work with a huge marginsted
- pango - why so hostile? :-/Khurram
- I don't know much about cars sted, but this looks dope! https://www.youtube.…Khurram
- Also did you check out the new Huawei Mate60 Pro??? :O
https://www.cnn.com/…Khurram - Chyna!Khurram
- hostile? nahhh. cautious.pango
- only a fool wouldn't be cautious of CCPpango
- that looks cool. there is an insane amount of tuning opportunities in these and sooner or later the playground will be open for everyone.sted
- ahaha yeah poor Huawei, they just can't let it go.sted
- what is the most disgusting about that there are plenty of lawsuits ongoing/settled about license and patent violations but not too many get the samested
- level of news coverage what Huawei does.sted
- who cares about patent violations. why isn't everything like fashion—you can't patent or copyright a sewing pattern. ...doesnotexist
- i saw an exact duplicate of a g wagon in detroit the other day, all except the mercedes logo. pretty impressive! probably a fraction of the cost toodoesnotexist
- nothing holds you back from buying copyrighted designs, and the fashion industry has a lot of these.sted
- @doesnotexist what should we do with the manufacturers whos RnD is 100% based on corporate spies and reverse engineering?sted
- You invent something, invest in the r&d, building prototypes, financing etc. deal with the manufacturability of the product for the given customer market.sted
- The product looks like a success, selling really nice, you start the development on new markets, improvements, features, while ramping up the production.sted
- Because you were convinced on the spot that it is a good idea to do this in China at that factory. You will not hesitate to give them the advance they ask for.sted
- Now that money you sent to increase production will be used to finance a cheap piss-poor version of your product and the random brand they build around it.sted
- 3-6 months later a similar product will show up on one of the Chinese wholesale sites.sted
- The quality issues are going to start to increase. You will look for a new factory, while your thoughts are around product liability. That Chinese brandsted
- shapesalad2
- Affected area equivalent to the size of the UK.shapesalad
- in. sane.doesnotexist
- Nairn1
- https://www.youtube.…
</ss>Nairn - papier mache cities?PhanLo
- nah they just build their skyscrapers out of cardboard boxesdoesnotexist
- https://www.youtube.…
- _niko4
Tofu Drag lol Jesus
- BuddhaHat1
- I really hope these problems at home don't precipitate Xi doing something stupid against Taiwan or in the South China Sea. I think it's very possible though =\BuddhaHat
- I'm tempted to say it's less likely because a war would just accelerate economic problems.yuekit
- not likely right now. check again in 10 yearspango
- Xi has been making less than optimal decisions over the last few years, there's a non-zero chance he makes another one. I hope you're right though.BuddhaHat
- ^ If you believe Peter Zeihan, it's partially because Xi has removed all potentially contrasting POVs, leaving nobody left to stop his poor decisions.MondoMorphic
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- NBQ00-2
- Ugggh this guy
He over sensationalized, over simplify everything too muchpango - https://www.youtube.…pango
- Ugggh this guy
- utopian-1
COVID may have escaped lab, top Chinese scientist admits.
It's probably safe to say that George Gao, the former head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention will suddenly disappear along with his family.
- He's probably saying a USA lab.shapesalad
- what a source... yahoo newsmilfhunter
- The original news source was the BBC
https://www.bbc.com/…utopian